Originally Posted by
RChung
Dude, do you also tell babies to stop crawling on all fours and that their stride length should be the same as Morceli and El Guerrouj? You know, to get them to push themselves cuz you think babies won't do that without your help?
As for the chicken or egg argument, you haven't presented any evidence for an egg. The best you can do is point at Lance or the hour record, wave your arms, and argue that those things apply to newbies. Dude, all of the evidence points at the chicken. Your egg? It's herring roe.
But I'm completely comfortable with you thinking I'm wrong. I'm also comfortable with laughing at you guys for picking a fight and then showing up not with guns, not with knives, but with spoons.
No one picked a fight but you. You came in here and started your fish stories. People like you always do the same thing. Pick a specific point and hammer on it. You can be as right as you want in your mind. The fact is, I don't have to prove you wrong. I, as well as many others on here, understand the basic concept of cadence and how monitoring it can improve one's ability. Telling anyone, new or old, to use a cadence in a 80-100 range will more likely than not be a safe generalization that will put a person at an ideal cadence. The fact that you have an issue with that, that you would go to so much effort to somehow show that that COULD be wrong for a specific person speaks volumes about you.